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AS and A Level: Criticism & Comparison

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Marked by Teachers essays 12
Peer Reviewed essays 1

Innocence and Experience in "Atonement" and "The Go-Between"

5 star(s)
- Word count: 2875
- Submitted: 03/11/2009
- Marked by teacher: Katie Dixon 05/07/2013
The English Patient

5 star(s)
- Word count: 53965
- Submitted: 08/08/2009
- Marked by teacher: Jeff Taylor 30/07/2013
Within the three texts, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, Look back in Anger by John Osborne and The Whitsun Weddings by Phillip Larkin, each writer explores the concept of a changing world.

4 star(s)
- Word count: 3400
- Submitted: 29/11/2012
- Marked by teacher: Katie Dixon 05/07/2013
- Awarding body: Not known/Not applicable
Both A Passage to India and Heart of Darkness can be interpreted as portraying Imperialism in a critical light, as a dark force which spreads from England into foreign environments

4 star(s)
- Word count: 1756
- Submitted: 26/03/2012
- Marked by teacher: Katie Dixon 05/07/2013
Henry V compared to the War Poets. Throughout 'Henry V' there are very strong references to God, sin and salvation. War is viewed as a moral and spiritual means of upholding the status quo.

4 star(s)
- Word count: 2188
- Submitted: 08/11/2011
- Marked by teacher: Katie Dixon 07/08/2013
Presenation of childhood in Jane Eyre and Once in a House On Fire

4 star(s)
- Word count: 1740
- Submitted: 30/12/2009
- Marked by teacher: Jeff Taylor 30/07/2013
Blanche and Stanley

4 star(s)
- Word count: 1037
- Submitted: 25/05/2009
- Marked by teacher: Katie Dixon 05/07/2013
The strength of Much Ado About Nothing lies in its balance of contrasting elements

4 star(s)
- Word count: 1786
- Submitted: 26/12/2008
- Marked by teacher: Val Shore 27/03/2012
The Theme of Opression in Marriage in "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "The Story of an Hour".

3 star(s)
- Word count: 1327
- Submitted: 17/07/2012
- Marked by teacher: Jeff Taylor 30/07/2013
- Awarding body: Not known/Not applicable
Exploration of the ways that Shakespeare and Austen present us with different aspects of love or the theme of love looking at similarities and differences in the two texts and bearing in mind the different times they were written in.

3 star(s)
- Word count: 1570
- Submitted: 20/01/2012
- Marked by teacher: Katie Dixon 05/07/2013

Conclusion analysis

Good conclusions usually refer back to the question or title and address it directly - for example by using key words from the title.
How well do you think these conclusions address the title or question? Answering these questions should help you find out.

Do they use key words from the title or question?

Do they answer the question directly?

Can you work out the question or title just by reading the conclusion?

To what extent does Shakespeare use comedy to explore the perceptions of love in Twelfth Night?

"In conclusion I think that comedy plays a major role in the part of portraying the perceptions of love. Though the play has a very good potential of becoming tragic, this makes the audience appreciate the happy ending. Also I think it makes the play more comical because of the fact it was so close to going wrong for the characters and makes the ending much more of a relief and welcomed so greatly by the audience. BY GEORGINA WADSLEY"

To what extent does Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" conform to the model of the comedy of manners you have studied?

"To conclude, in the end of the play we can see that Oscar Wilde indeed does conform to the comedy of manners and creates a light hearted comedy that universally all people can relate to and enjoy, which is why the play has been so popular for more than a century."

Focusing On a Clockwork Orange and Frankenstein compare some of the ways authors explore the idea of what it means to be an outcast.

"In conclusion, the authors of both A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess - and Frankenstein - Mary Shelley have don e well in concealing the ideas of an outcast in their novels, using the actions of the characters and knowledge of systematic psychological and sociological emotions the ideas of an outcast in the novels were unveiled."

AS and A Level: Criticism & Comparison

Innocence and Experience in "Atonement" and "The Go-Between"

The English Patient

Within the three texts, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, Look back in Anger by John Osborne and The Whitsun Weddings by Phillip Larkin, each writer explores the concept of a changing world.

Both A Passage to India and Heart of Darkness can be interpreted as portraying Imperialism in a critical light, as a dark force which spreads from England into foreign environments

Henry V compared to the War Poets. Throughout 'Henry V' there are very strong references to God, sin and salvation. War is viewed as a moral and spiritual means of upholding the status quo.

Presenation of childhood in Jane Eyre and Once in a House On Fire

Blanche and Stanley

The strength of Much Ado About Nothing lies in its balance of contrasting elements

The Theme of Opression in Marriage in "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "The Story of an Hour".

Exploration of the ways that Shakespeare and Austen present us with different aspects of love or the theme of love looking at similarities and differences in the two texts and bearing in mind the different times they were written in.

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